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CHARLES LAW, OF PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 69 1,27 9, dated January 14, 1902. Application filed April Z9, 1901. Serial No. 57,943. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, it mgl/y concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES LAW, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittston, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chutes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to chutes, and more particularly to that class adapted to be used in filling cars.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide an eiiicient, durable, and convenient device adapted to meet the requirements and perform the functions of a firstclass conveyer or chute; second, to so construct 'and arrange the same that it may be adjusted in such a manner as to fill the car evenly, and, third, to provide a chute constructed of manganese bronze, enameled iron, or any other material upon which sulfur alkalies, vapors, fumes, &c., common to all coal will have no effect.

The invention consists, in brief, in certain component and cooperative parts and the novel manner of combination and arrangement of said parts, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims, which are intended to accord in their terms, spirit, and meaning with the prior state of the art and the existing law.

Before proceeding further with a detaileddescription of the several novel features of my invention I desire to distinctly state and emphasize the fact that although I have shown in the accompanying drawings and described in the following specific description certain component and coperative parts which I deem sufficiently improved and operative to carry out the principles herein incorporated I do not confine myself to the exact details of construction so illustrated and described, since obvious departures may be made without deviation from the inherent and generic features constituting the gist hereof.

In the drawings forming a part of this specication, Figure 1 is a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Referring by letters to the drawings, A represents the breeches or braces, in which is detachably secured the chute proper, consisting of two corresponding semicircular sections B, curved or iaring in opposite directions, with the edges of their respective walls tapering, as plainly shown at C, and terminating in a shallowr concave portion D, the ends of which are provided with guides E, adapted to receive the adjustable sliding sections F, which are also provided with guides `G, adapted to engage the edges of the portions D, and stays or braces H upon their free ends adapted to strengthen the sections and prevent the ends from becoming bent.

While I have neither shown nor described any device for suspending the chute over or in a car, it is obvious that any well-known means may be employed without aecting the principle or operation thereof.

Having thus described the various features of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I. In a chute, a breech, two corresponding semicircular sections detachably secured in the said-breech, the said sections flaring in opposite directions, with their walls tapering to shallow concaved surfaces, and adjustable concave sections attached to the free ends of the respective semicircular'sections, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a chute, a breech having two corresponding semicircular sections detachably se'- cured therein, the said sections flaring in opposite directions with the edges of their respective walls tapering to a shallow concave surface, guides upon the said concave surface, adjustable sliding sections upon the said guides and braces upon the said sliding sections, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a chute, the combination of a breech, detachable concaved sections of manganese bronze or the like supported by said breech, the said sections Haring in opposite directions, and of similar sections adjustably connected to the free ends of the first-mentioned sections, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

. CHARLES LAW. Witnesses:

J. N. ANDERSON, ANNA N. LAW. 

